January 31, 2011
Pit for nothing more than tires, fuel and driver changes over the course of a 24-hour endurance race, and they say you’re virtually a sure bet to come home with first place. That’s pretty much all the No. 10 SunTrust Chevrolet Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing did during this weekend’s 49th renewal of the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series’ season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona. While mechanical maladies were nonexistent for the entire, frantically paced 24-hour run by the SunTrust team, it all came down to a sudden, single on-track incident shortly after the five-hour mark that might have made the difference between victory and a highly satisfying yet bitterly disappointing fifth-place finish Sunday afternoon.
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